Taco Truck Takedown: Why is the LAPD hassling food carts?

[gfc56]

Food trucks are unfair competition to brick and mortar stores.

[doobersmanster]

This again is why you need small government and limited government with very little power. No one bussiness should use the Government to give them an unfair advantage. I love the food in taco trucks.

[Shonenut213]

Pussy ass cops are too scared to take down all the armed gang bangers who are committing REAL crimes!

[adamtheblessed1]

These people in their taco truck are just fighting the establishment by offering good food at a fair price.

The local restaurants are against these taco trucks because they want to charge high prices for terrible food.

[gfc56]

@adamtheblessed1 Restaurants have higher overhead.

[wokeupthismorning100]

Taco Truck: A Toyota Tacoma decorated with taco vinyls which the kitchen is located in the bed of the truck.

[yblehs2]

wasting food

people oversea would love to have that food

[exaltron]

This is what happens when you decriminalize drugs- the cops who spent their time billy-clubbing casual marijuana users now have to find someone else to harass. Law of Unintended Consequences, people.

[immrlizard]

That is a whole lot easier to hassle then to actually doing real work and busting actual criminals.

[isair81]

Can't have something like the free market create unwanted competition to local restaurants.

[wcbombers21]

FUCK LAPD THEY CAN GO SUCK A FAT D@#@

[bostero1]

FUCK THE THOUGHT POLICE! (I mean L.A.P.D.)

[wildgift2]

One other thing - the trucks hit Miracle Mile because the restaurants there aren't that good. It's like Baja Fresh and a Marie Callendar's and some other stores. The gourmet truck food I've had has been pretty lousy too - they could never compete in the working class neighborhoods against real taco and torta trucks. So the gourmet trucks go where they can compete to sell their overpriced food.

[wildgift2]

I see police busting food vendors who sell on the same street as drug dealers and prostitutes. While I can see some risks from these food vendors - some of them use hot coals in a box grill - I think the police are just afraid to bust the drug dealers and prostitutes because the gangs would intervene. Also, the police might be paid off by the gangsters. It's hard to know what's going on.

[ratarob]

corruption just pay up the cops now....

[matcotech]

God damn food venders, peddling their delicious poison to the African American communities, destroying our christian moral majority. SHAME!...SHAME!...

[theshaggyshow]

vote for power hungry socialist democrats... and this is what you get

[Houshalter]

They should put signs up "People selling food may face arbitrary penalties up to and including death." in order to help inform the public of the dangers of eating tacos on the street.

[TheDegree777]

fuck the restaraunts and the police if i want a to buy some thing off a street vender.

I am going go ahead and buy some thing?

[lexmark136]

oinkers will be oinkers... no matter where you live.

Around here, they prefer to dish out traffic tickets instead of catching real criminals.. like the jackass that busted my car window last week.

[bittergunowner12]

Oh no these taco trucks are gonna kill us all!

[MrDurcon]

Its America! We want it fast and cheap! We got shit to do! You know like pay for your Government to crack down on the things we want!

[fudgedogbannana]

No,taco truck are not a threat and not a competitor either, people already know where they want to go to eat before they step out side the door, it doesn't matter if restaurants are next door to each other, or if a taco truck is parked in front, you mostly know where you want to eat before you reach a restaurant

[bryan760]

Don't steal from the restaurants who pay a lot of money to be there. You know exactly what you are doing so don't act all innocent.

[RythmandStrings]

@bryan760 Yeah! dammit! Heaven forbid they use their right to pay for a business liscence, buy a truck, load it up and park anywhere the government says they can and sell food! Damn capitalists! Making all that damn competition in a free market, in a free country! Who do we shut down next? I say the ice cream trucks! Yeah, that's it! Those bastards are doing the same damn thing! Never mind that both ALSO payed a lot of money. Hell no, both go! Great idea! so much for the American dream

[bryan760]

@RythmandStrings LOOOL! They park in front of restaurants! Why? To take away business from those restaurants. You seem to not understand the difference between a brick and mortar business as compared to a... a damn truck. You also don't seem to understand the cost difference between the two.

[RythmandStrings]

@bryan760 It's LEGAL MORON! If another business can't compete....SEE YA!

[UnitedPebbles]

Ehhhh, LA...ehhh. Lol. LAPD is run by mafia, from what I heard. All big dogs run the show in LA. But LA or not, just another human being.

[AndrewAnn217]

they don't pay tax for LA so it's not big deal that police hassel trucks.

but to customers, there's no restaurant but taco truck which makes people be able to get food easily. there must be law for its argument

[oliveros008]

It all comes down to the customer. If the food is better at the food trucks, well then fuck the restaurants

[LADRLZ]

It's not just cops. It's the entire city that hates the street food vendors. from the cops to the mayor. all are trying to make the life of street food vendors extremely difficult

[JOKAWILD26]

taco trucks usually have WAY better food,, then the resturants do,, if i see a taco truck, i would rather get my food their,, then walkin into the stor, cuz the food is bomb,,

[LostFREEDOM]

Fucking scum thug pigs!

[BickeyMan]

the local restaurants need to adapt.  instead of complain

[usergently]

The brainwashed pigs are going after those people for money. California is fucking broke. They even draw 800$ tickets for cell phone use in your car. America is done and buried.

[CaptainFapmore]

Taco Trucks are the shit. I have eaten at them many times. They follow the same health regulations as any other restaurant. It's just mobile.

[duanescot]

wtf happened to this once great nation????

[Leavon]

I'm sorry but this just boasts of third world status, food trucks thats completely tacky. I can see their use in locations that don't have access to sit down resturants but they should have to remain at least a mile from permanent structure food establishments otherwise they are exploiting the money spent by the resturants in advertising.

[residentzombie]

@Leavon In America we have a wonderful contract called the Constitution that provides freedom to all, not for people like you to force people to do what you want them to. Go to China (not Hong Kong), you will love it there. The government tells you everything that you can and cannot do. In America we believe in freedom.

[Leavon]

@residentzombie Oh get fucking real, these food truck drivers are exploiting the establlished businesses in the area otherwise they wouldn't go there in the first place. I'm quite happy in the U.S. but I can see where you'd rather live in some third world shit hole, might I suggest somewhere in south america take your pick I could care less. Next time try comprehending what someone is saying before you make a complete "useful idiot" out of yourself.

[residentzombie]

@Leavon So since you hate competition that keeps prices down and improves quality, I take it you are a Statist?

[residentzombie]

@Leavon Who are you to take away the right of someone else because you don't agree with them? Oh yeah you are a neo-conservative, nevermind hypocrite. No Islamic rights, but rights for Jews and Christians right? rotfl I suggest you unsubscribe from libertarian channels like ReasonTV, CATO Institute, and Libertarian Party.

[residentzombie]

@Leavon Taco trucks have the same rights that established restaurants have. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. Learn it and apply it always.

[residentzombie]

@Leavon You give libertarians a bad name. Hypocrisy is not welcomed in libertarian philosophy.

[Leavon]

@residentzombie You are just getting creepier by the minute I swear if my address were part of the Youtube record you'd be parked outside my house by now. You leap dozens of assumptions with no foundation..... Kinda puts you right in league with the rest of your liberal/progressive idols. If you can't come up with any vaild points you don't let that stop you, you just start jumping around making shit up as you go right? By all means keep making stuff up, you haven't called me racist yet.

[RepublicanDumbAss]

Spoken like a true thief...

[NobbyKNobbs]

This is awful. LA and NY are one of the few cities in the USA that has decent street food. :(

[Gustavofromelcajon]

dude we need that shit in EL CAJON!!!!!!!

[BlueHerself]

Wow, LAPD needs better "crimes" to take care of, lolol.

[steeleye65]

Thank god the elitists are finally complaining about those eyesore street vendors. I like the "dangerous food" designation. HA! When I was in Cali Jack in the Box food poisoned hundreds of people.

This is all about money. The restaurant owners pay Cali's insane property taxes or rent from the elites. The street vendors do not. Special permits that cost crazy money are coming. Screw Arnold, Pelosi, Boxer and the other elitist bastards!

[ma23gh]

yea capitalism...

[XKokeAndSoupX]

Ever facepalm so hard your hand shoots into your skull? That's the feeling I'm getting right about now.

[machineguntongue]

I want a taco! That made hungry. This video should have a warning stating, "Do not view on an empty stomach!" An Eddie warning. Eddies loves tacos.....hahaha!

[warpedwiselegoman]

doesnt the LAPD have some stoners to throw in jail or something? **(SARCASM)**

[saper321]

I see government is hard at work to kill free market in every sector of the economy.

[kevinkeeland]

I found this video interesting, but I feel as though the reporting is misguided and it does not present the crux of the problem. Yes, the health department says that the hot dogs are dangerous, but I think that the real reason that the LAPD is going after these vendors is because the local gangs force many (not all) of the street vendors to pay taxes to them (especially with the hot dog vendors).

[kevinkeeland]

So if the police go after the vendors, this will in turn help to curb the money that goes to the gangs. Whether you agree with this policy or not that is another debate.

[XxRayPwnsxX]

they have nothing better to do.. ive ate those hotdogs they are thaa shit and i didnt die wtf

[mindmelt13]

Hopefully the cops will choke on a bacon dog, serves them right for not doing their jobs of catching real criminals, like the ones running the government.

[jefevonQ]

Bacon-wrapped hot dogs? HELL YEAH!

It just goes to show that the police and other local officials are for sale too. Not just at the federal level.

[MashkaTekoa]

sad but true

[Altoman5]

This is stupid, while people are getting assaulted or killed, while homes are being burglarized and banks being robbed, the LAPD is too busy hasseling people who are just trying to make a living.

[kb82481]

fuck da police!!!

[dudemanbearpig]

Los Angeles is one of the most crime-ridden cities in the US, and the cops are doing THIS?!?!?! Epic fail.

[rentonsentinel]

LA county fascists are notorious. The idiots in that government literally wanted to ban the use of "master" and "slave" in reference to Hard Drive configurations inside of county computers. They sought to file down all the labels and told manufacturers that they could not ship products with the word "slave". Epic stupidity in this county government.

[Libertarianist]

Fuckin' cops.

[tomandmary55]

where was obama born and what is he hiding?

[reapfreak]

I hate the government.

[SharkDude1]

This boggles the mind. The City of LA issued these trucks permits, and yet the CITY Police are hasseling them? The LAPD should stop this bullcrap. If the City issued a permit for trucks, then the truck is legal, what more do the LAPD need to know? Meanwhile, a store is getting robbed, and people might die, but the LAPD takes 30 minutes to get there, Because their busy with a Taco truck. Are you kidding me!

[stefminus]

they do this in austin and san antonio too.

[bigdogsdontbark]

How is Korean BarBQue? Never tried it. Palin 2012

[420blackhawk]

they look like they are all immigrants to me, that is why they are being hassled. LAPD must have the crime under control if they got nothing better to do.

[brucevbracken]

They should form a convoy! Civil disobedience for capitalism!!

[DoomHippie]

Well that settles it, NEVER going to LA!

Taco Trucks are AWESOME!

[airborne373]

This goes on all over the U.S. I have had cops tell me they would jail me and confiscate my property if I do not leave private property where I have permission to sell.

All without a trial.

[kyon813]

Why must they ban everything delicious? WHY?!

[igorolech]

that's how governments are killing innovation. don't worry, you're not alone, we have the same in europe

[DSAhmed]

Amen, ReasonTV!

[RangerX55]

Unite and fight this injustice

[cloudberry121]

Taco trucks need to organize. Have a Call-3 network. Cops start to shake you down? Call 3 other, who will call 3 etc. all come to that location and shout, protest, video everything, make noise and get the local news out there.

Do that and this will stop and pronto.

[cloudberry121]

This is insulting to the cops who are now turned into political goon squads instead of being allowed to do the jobs their were hired to do.

The worst part is the corrupt politicians that made this happen will never be named and shamed.

[freesk8]

Great video, Reason!!!

Free Minds and Free Markets!

[default013]

Yeah, more regulation will save the economy. That's the ticket.

[modernfreestyle]

Cop A: "Should we do something about that crack dealer over there?"

Cop B: "Nah, he might be armed. Let's go after the bacon-wrapped weenies."

[JasonJG]

@modernfreestyle That's a good one!! So true! Cops don't want to confront real criminals becuase its too dangerous and they might catch Hep C

[scott01019]

i wish those types of trucks were around in gainesville; that food looks really good :)

[anarchylogic]

Usualy I have a much more verbose opinion on such matters, but what can I say:

Fuck the police.

[lordthawkeye]

I feel so much safer now, don't the rest of you? /sarcasm

[jsh78mang]

Korean BBQ the menece of the west.......Damn now I'm hungry

[brockal]

lol!

THE LAND OF THE FREE

THE HOME OF THE BRAVE

lol!

Stupid damned Amerikans will nearly bend over and take anything up the keester...

[coffeebuzzz]

@brokal,

You are completely wrong, it is spelled keister, lol.

[MilitaryTacticalGear]

land of the weak and home of the slave!

Amerikans started losing their independence almost as soon as they gained it. The Declaration grievences are as current today as they were then.

[PrayingForDaylight]

This is why I hate cops... They should be treated with just as much skepticism and distrust as politicians. They are just, if not more, corruptible. They are an extension of government!  We should question their power constantly, just like politicians.

[b07rivera]

I couldn't help but to agree with you man.  It does feel as though we are becoming more of the new USSA, rather than The Land of the Free.

And for my skepticism on cops, oh yeah it's growing al right. They are tools to the scum that is currently in political seats.

[cloudberry121]

@b07rivera

The more in debt cities and states become, the more political pressure will be made to turn the police force into legal shake down artists.

Just like the wise guys who want to 'protect' your businesses so nothing happens to them. Voters must stop this now.

[truvelocity]

I'll be soooo pissed if they ban bacon wrapped hot dogs.

[Mastikator]

That bacon wrapped hotdog sure did look tempting.

[whoo689]

I want TRUE capitalism, not crony capitalism or big business supporting certain regulations as barriers to entry for smaller competitors.

[whoo689]

Intellectual property is really intellectual monopoly, the power to stifle future innovation to keep costs and prices high for everyone else and keep your profits as high as possible. If you put something out there on the market voluntarily, it's fair game, as far I'm concerned.

Michele Boldrine and David Levine's book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" is an awesome rebuttal to the classic arguments for copyright and patent protections. It's chock full of studies and reference to history.

[whoo689]

100% free market all the way! If a little girl wants to operate a lemonade stand w/o a permit, so be it. If you wanna sell a track from a CD that YOU bought and now (supposedly) are the legal owner of that CD, go ahead. If you wanna record a movie on tv and sell it, fine. Why should the bigwigs in the media and elsewhere have all the fun?? Fuck al lthis "copyright" bullshit. Copyright is codeword for big corporate selling monopoly.

Do we not care about small business?

[whoo689]

mmm... bacon-wrapped hot dogs. This video reminds me of the old Drew Carey mini-docs on Reasontv. I kinda miss those. You should bring back Drew Carey for more of those.  The new Reasontv kind of sucks, to be honest. Too many interviews and not enough reports like this.

[stefanguimond]

I can just picture Vic Mackey hassling taco vendors.

[mackler]

people who work for the government should be ashamed. and punished.

[HeadTater]

This is yet another case of companies using the government to strong arm the little guy out of competition. In "Everything I Want to do is Illegal" by Joel Salatin (a book a read cuz I saw it on Reason) he talks about the same stuff with meat processing. The big guys use the gov't to force all these arbitrary rules in the name of safety etc to get rid of the compassion. It's like the mob.. but "legal" Bring RICO charges against the government!

[TiaSaysSo]

It's time to learn Russian,cause we are back in the USSR.

[saxmanmax]

NYPD does the same shit

[sfmain]

Time to start suing the pants off then when can afford new bikes theyll start to think about it for a second......

[TokDiYel]

While it is certainly wrong for LAPD to hand out these kind of fines, I ask you viewers to empathize with the Restaurant Owners, which this video seems to demonize as much as the LAPD.

If you are a restaurant owner dealing with health inspectors, liquor laws, and increasing property taxes, you'd be angry because the Gov. has driven up your operating costs. Since you know you can't make the laws go away, you might feel like your livelihood depended on promoting a more even playing field.

[TokDiYel]

RE: Not to say it's okay for cops to harass these people. And I know that there is licensing involved in food cart operation, though not as much. BUT sit-down restaurants would be MUCH cheaper if there were no property taxes, minimum wage laws, etc. The real focus of this video should be the cause, not the effect.

You shouldn't need a government permission slip for a food cart, or a restaurant, or anything else.

[TwiztidAsh]

Oh poor rich yuppie scum losing a little business from their fancy & expensive restaurants! Oh boo hoo! Life is so hard for the rich isn't it?! WAAAHH WAAAAHH!!!

[TokDiYel]

TwiztidAsh: Really?

[mackler]

so if I get mugged, that means I'm justified in assisting the mugger in robbing someone else? what kind of sick logic is that?

[TokDiYel]

mackler: I get where you're coming from. No, of course that's not right! And that's not what the restaurants are doing. But if you're driving along, and some guy speeds past you, and you get pulled over by a cop in a speed trap around the next corner, tell me you aren't going to argue: "but the guy in front of me was going twice as fast!"

[Keylimedelight]

I fucking love mobile eats.

[TwiztidAsh]

Yeah I wish we had mobile food vendors around here. That would be the shit to have gyros, tacos and Korean grill or whatever right outside my door once in a while.

[getnick77]

and people wonder why the economy in this country is in the hole that we're in every time you turn around theres some new rule to stop private enterprise

[aallppiinnee]

you know Nathan's Famous (NASDAQ: NATH)?

Well that company started as a simple hot dog stand similar to the food carts operated by these entrepreneurs.

What would-be national food company (job creator) is going to be killed on the street in its infancy because of Obama Nation type thuggery?

[Elasaltaculos]

ah, a variation to the antitrust scam!

[hypervanguy]

okay. hold on. its not safe to eat bacon wraped hotdogs, but yet you guys down in the states eat burgars rare ?? fucked up dude

[Nexus974]

This video would carry more wieght if it actually showed some cops harassing the taco truck vendors.

[yytrert]

they should hire the guy that made all the acorn tapes

[xxUSofAxx]

Get use to it people! If we keep electing these politicians who promise us everything this is what you will get. These social programs are not free, they expect you to give up your rights in return. Also, don't blame the cops as they don't make laws. Blame the people (legislator) who actually make these laws.

[Vlaxitov]

This isn't the country I was born in.

[yamagoof]

God bless the LAPD for protecting the streets from reasonably priced, easily accessible, yummy food! What, cause LA has zero crime-no rapists, murderers, thieves, etc to capture! Wow, I feel MUCH safer knowing they are picking on legal food vendors!!!

Fucking scum thug pigs!

[TwiztedAnimator]

Good old L.A. State controlled EVERYTHING!

[b0bzm00s3]

Wow, it really sucks to be a food vendor in LA...

[pudodrewculous]

meh, i think it'd suck to live in LA... period

[b0bzm00s3]

True, very true...

[MagnusIan]

If I ever go to LA, I'm choosing a taco truck over a restaurant.

[yamagoof]

Hell yeah! That Korean BBQ truck had some YUMMY looking stuff!

[ForTehNguyen]

i bet this cart was too strong of competition and making more money compared to a union run shop, the LAPD, also being union will back up their union brothers.

[navtel]

that is too funny.. go taco trucks..

[Infantry9]

There are way better things for government to do than trampling on free market competition such as going after actual criminals like street muggers and gangs. Government is suppose to maintain a free environment for people to succeed and it was doing the complete opposite in Los Angeles.

[C6BD]

In my hometown of Quebec City such food carts are illegal, because of the restaurant looby. Basically it's using the power of the state (who uses guns) to eliminate competition.

[corenothing]

Enough is Enough is Enough!

[onvogmasaj]

is enough is enough is enough!

[HBSchool]

to measure the clearance between the ground, from which the vegetables came, and my display.

It's fucking ludicrous...

[HBSchool]

This is the type of shit RIGHT HERE that stifles American entrepreneurial spirit. You have to consider that it's these types of businesses that get entrepreneurs with little capital started. The experience is invaluable and it adds to the forward momentum that keeps you going.

Sunil Mittal started with a bicycle shop.

Warren Buffet with pinball machines.

I couldn't sell fruit and vegetables on my own property without being harassed by the Health Department. They came out with tape measures...

[Nonoyawns]

Typical big government trying to shut down good working people. Free market keeps people employed. When has the LAPD ever done anything right?

[soundmoneyfan]

taco trucks are the bomb!

[goingalt]

I hate California. I've lived in North CA almost all my life and I can't find one person who lives in Northern CA (with the exception of most Bay Area Socialists) that likes CA.

[huttwigley]

Since small businesses are closing down left and right, while government expenditures go up and fewer people are paying taxes, the government is looking to acquire more revenue. This "revenue" is acquired by finding any finable infractions possible, and imposing them on small businesses as well as on working-class citizens. When was the last time you got pulled over by a cop for a traffic stop and they let you go with a just warning? Won't happen any more...

[motormaker]

I have never had a bacon wrapped hot dog ....However, it sounds glorious.

[C6BD]

You're right. I'm going to make some tonight.

[ghuegel]

Shutting down the selling of bacon-wrapped hotdogs is a sin of the highest caliber.

It's specifically forbidden by the hedonist 10 commandments.

[AzureFlameElk]

Where in this video was there an indicator that the police's actions were driven by 'upset restaurant owners'? As far as I can tell it was just an assumption.

Another possible reason would be that police have quotas to fill.

[HBSchool]

Brick and mortars do in fact get upset about street vendors. It usually stems from a vendor "encroaching" on their "turf". You have to remember that Brick and mortars pay rent, property taxes, etc. on top of the permit needed by street vendors.

While some of this may be unfounded, because they often cater to separate tastes, feelings do get hurt.

Reason: You should take a look at vendors in NY and the black market that has arisen around the business of permits. Some of those permits can cost 1m

[ozmoroid]

When a business tries to use government power to suppress competition, I think it can accurately be described as fascist.

[helltrackrider]

what a shitty country this is...

[ORVX]

big liberal corpratist gov at the street level. when are dumb ass american's gonna wake up?

[EsotericThrone]

Great video.

[HolisticPlantHealth]

taco terror trucks ! runnnnnnnnnnnnn

I saw something along these lines on current TV a while ago, probably still playing (they replay everything forever)

[XCritonX]

Keep telling it like it is!

In Toronto Canada the hot dog carts are owned by organized crime. They don't get hassled by the government because the gangsters have an effective "lobbing" power. Instead the vendors pay protection money. It just as bad.

[emmthreejonny]

What a waste of good food. Forcing people what food to eat and what not to eat is kinda sinister. Maybe discipline and common sense is too harsh a word for the Health department.

[Chrisnoscrub047]

barriers to market entry discourage competition. decreasing competition = higher prices

[furyofbongos]

And why are the restaurants charging so much?

I'm sure I don't have to provide the answer...

[coffeebuzzz]

@furyofbongos

Yeah, i'd be pretty pissed if I spent 500,000 setting up a restaurant, only to have a low overhead mobile one park in front of my place and undercut me by 50%.

[furyofbongos]

@coffee - I see your point. I also was alluding to the high taxes the restaurants pay in terms of property taxes. It is an advantage to just park though.

There's a small city in my state that instigated a tax on light bulbs in restaurants. Yes, that's right. They pay taxes on the light fixtures in the restaurants. They already have a tax on the # of chairs.

This hurts the small mom & pops and of course, the larger ones support this kind of tax to destroy their competition.

[hobo59]

Typical in LAPD. They take care of whoever pays them the most !

[FatherTime89]

Reminds me of beer sellers that don't want weed legal. Companies only like capitalism when it benefits them, else they couldn't care less. Assholes.

[ORVX]

@FatherTime89 yes but you can't blame comanies they are doing what is legally avialable to them BECASUE of all the dumb ass sheep like Joe Blow that votes for big big gov and then big gov pulling all the strings. This is what capitalism is, and WHY it don't work when you get big gov. Capitism works WHEN the gov get's the fuck out of the way. Do you vote liberal? if you do, u vote for this.

[Buffalo122333]

@ORVX

"you can't blame companies they are doing what is legally available"

Excuse me?

Immoral is immoral whether it's legal or not.

[ORVX]

@Buffalo122333 that's the whole fucking point dumb ass, people like YOU feel it is not imoral because daddy gov has his dick in your mouth, that's the whole fucking poing, people do what people do, take BO's dick out of you ass and wake up.

[Buffalo122333]

@ORVX

You say it's perfectly all right to use the government to shut down the competition I answer that it's wrong whether it's legal or not,

You respond with an insane attack that has nothing to do with the subject.

Both the laws and the people who use them against competition are wrong.

That's the last time I'll respond to you.

[ORVX]

@Buffalo122333 that stament says it all, u clearly should not be having this debate as you do not understand the issue. I never said "perfectly" all right even if thought, I would not say it like that , im not a homo. 2nd it don't fucking matter, people r people, & people do what people do,BIG GOV creates the environment for this to happen. Weather a dumbass likes this not the issue, what you want has no revlevance. Until people like YOU this this shit figured out, WE ARE ALL FUCKED!

[libertyfizz]

@FatherTime89 I have to correct you this is not an example of capitalism the more correct term would be mercantilism. Mercantilism is frequently misidentified as capitalism and mercantilism has nothing to do with free market. Mercantilism employees government regulation to support politically favored businesses and limit competition in the marketplace.